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Terminating Processes where you only know the executeable's name ?

Does anybody know if it's possible to terminate a process if you only know the name of the executeable rather than the window handle ?

eg. in the taskmanager I have a program called 'CMESys.exe' this is, despite the name, some sort of popup advertising system, I don't know the window handle of this program, I was wondering if it was possible to shut it down if you only know the name of the process ?

If this can be done I wanna create a program which can terminate any adware process running ...

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Aaangel

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Ferruccio Accalai

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kretzschmar

may not work on nt, win2000, xp -> no toolhelp support

go to www.madshi.net,
there are some tuff librarys,
which makes it easy

meikl ;-)

Johnny_Bit

on win 9x killtask will require full path of executable, but on NT just executable. I'm sure 'cause i'm using procedure like KillTask

Ferruccio Accalai

uhmmm....maybe there's a magician in my pc's....It works fine in W2k-XP-ME-95-98 (Nt not tested....)
Am i just lucky? ;-)

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